• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 day ago

        A baby in a diaper, with no legs, wearing the Japanese flag on a giant turban, a cowardly royal guard, and who is actually an anthropomorphic mushroom named Toad.

        • samus12345@lemm.ee
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          22 hours ago

          an anthropomorphic mushroom named Toad.

          I guess they were referencing a toadstool, like Peach’s original US name? His name in Japanese actually makes sense: Kinopio, a play on the Japanese word for mushroom, “kinoko.”

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      2 days ago

      'twas told to me that in many ways they refuse to cooperate with our system of taxonomy at large, too freaky to ever be properly pinned down